Women Refugees’ Media Usage: Overcoming Information Precarity in Germany

Berg, Miriam

doi:10.1080/15562948.2021.1907642

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“…In other words, marginalized actors who are critical of the structure that marginalizes them transform their state of precarity into an alternative space where they can achieve their goals. Third, we extend information marginalization work beyond health information practices (e.g., Greyson, 2018;Kitzie et al, 2020) and information precarity work beyond refugees (e.g., Berg, 2021Berg, , 2022Wall et al, 2017Wall et al, , 2019. We have demonstrated that information practices are everyday life practices that people use to find information, solve problems, and live fully.…”

Section: Subversive Practicesmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…Third, we extend information marginalization work beyond health information practices (e.g., Greyson, 2018; Kitzie et al, 2020) and information precarity work beyond refugees (e.g., Berg, 2021, 2022; Wall et al, 2017, 2019). We have demonstrated that information practices are everyday life practices that people use to find information, solve problems, and live fully.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Rather than the neoliberal, consumerist model of information practices that is active in much of the United States, we find that many Puerto Ricans engaged in solidarity-based, anti-colonial, and anti-neoliberal information activities. This extends work focused on information practices in health (Greyson, 2018;Kitzie et al, 2020) and work that examines information precarity among refugee communities (Berg, 2021(Berg, , 2022Wall et al, 2017Wall et al, , 2019.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…They depicted information precarity as "the condition of instability that refugees experience in accessing news and personal information, potentially leaving them vulnerable to misinformation, stereotyping, and rumors that can affect their economic and social capital" (p. 240). Likewise, Berg (2021Berg ( , 2022 examined the information precarity of women refugees in Germany. This stream of research, focusing on refugees, clearly conveys the ways in which structural, political, and social institutions create and perpetuate instability, vulnerability, and inequity.…”

Section: Information Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Vasquez

Oltmann

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In this study, we propose that information precarity leads to and perpetuates information marginalization; communities then engage with marginalization with various types of proactive information practices. For this project, we explore how Puerto Ricans activists responded to information precarity before, during, and after Hurricane Maria. We interviewed activists about their experiences navigating the local and federal institutional environment and their information practices. We show that although Puerto Rico suffered catastrophic damage after Hurricane Maria, its already‐weakened infrastructure, coupled with fiscal instability, had created a state of information precarity for many people before the hurricane hit. We also show how Puerto Rican activists engaged in solidarity‐based, anti‐colonial, and anti‐neoliberal information activities. While previous models argue that people respond to marginalization with defensive/protective behavior, we propose people go beyond just responding; they enact their agency, resourcefulness, collective interests, and locally based knowledge to engage in proactive and subversive information practices. We conclude that marginalized actors who are critical of the structures that marginalize them transform their state of precarity into an alternative space where they can achieve their goals.

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Section: Subversive Practicesmentioning

confidence: 75%

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confidence: 93%

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confidence: 82%

Section: Information Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Vasquez

Oltmann

2023

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“…Since then, however, the research field of media and communication and migration/integration has been quiet, especially in German-speaking countries. Only a few studies dealt with long-term perspectives of media resonance after successful migration to the host country and mostly still with a focus (a) on the mobile phone (e.g., Alencar, 2020) and (b) the processes immediately after migration (e.g., Berg, 2021). In the case of Germany, however, many refugees who have arrived since 2015 are now at a different stage or phase of integration than in 2015 (Gürer, 2019): Most of them have a sound knowledge of language, politics, and society.…”

Section: From Mediatized Migration To Post-migrant Media Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Double-Edged Sword Mediatized Integration Processes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Görland

2023

Preprint

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The issue of media appropriation by refugees experienced a boom in 2015, but since then the topic has received less attention over the years. In addition, refugees have faced significant challenges since the appearance of COVID-19. In this paper, I discuss how Syrian migrants and refugees who have lived in Germany for at least four years used media technologies during COVID-19. I present findings from twelve guided interviews conducted in a northern German city. In summary, media use in general has increased, as has that of the majority society. On the other hand, media use during the pandemic has proven to be a double-edged sword: Some refugees had great(er) problems coping with the situation, while others gained self-empowerment and agency through using media during the pandemic.

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Information-precarity for refugee women in Hamburg, Germany, during the COVID-19 pandemic

Berg

2022

Information, Communication & Society

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Women Refugees’ Media Usage: Overcoming Information Precarity in Germany

Cited by 9 publications

References 56 publications

Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

The Double-Edged Sword Mediatized Integration Processes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Information-precarity for refugee women in Hamburg, Germany, during the COVID-19 pandemic

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